Empowering Youth to be #WorldReady

Participants can choose to improve on an existing skill or try something completely new, as they develop personal interests and enhance their practical and social skills. Examples of skills are nature & environmental skills, music, arts & crafts, communications skills, STEAM field studies, and more. 

Physical Recreation encourages healthy behavior and impacts the self-esteem, team skills, and confidence of participants. Physical recreation can include sports such as soccer, basketball baseball, football, hockey, golf; athletics such as running, triathlon, lifting; outdoor pursuits like watersports & hiking; martial arts, animal sports, and gymnastics.

The Award encourages young people to spend time volunteering in their community, which both benefits others and contributes to their own growth and well-being. Voluntary service can be visiting & supporting people in need, volunteering with a local charity, sports coaching, teaching & tutoring, helping with community projects, or engaging in conservation efforts.

The Adventurous Journey sparks exploration and drives a sense of adventure, as small teams plan, train and undertake a journey through an unfamiliar environment. Project Imo hosts adventurous journeys such as exploring the natural world, hiking, camping, backpacking, canoeing, and more. Each adventure is completed by a cohort of Award Participants.

As an Award Center, Project Imo has highly trained Award Coordinators that understand how to successfully implement the Award for youth, their families, and the community. Your org will have a dedicated Award Coordinator to help your youth.

As an individualized program, the Award provides each youth the chance to develop their own journey under the helpful mentorship of a trained Award Leader.  Each of your youth will have their own experience that will last a lifetime and create pathways to success.

So much of what you offer is already setting your youth up for success. Adding in the Award framework of non-formal education will help your youth stand out. Our Award Leaders will help them understand and integrate their work with you into their journey.

Project Imo will work to ensure your partnership with us eases your administrative burden while not adversely impacting your ability to provide your core services. Imo works to offset the cost of registration fees and Imo run programming for each youth. Your partnership provides our ability to support the administrative process that make delivering the Award at-scale possible.

The last thing you need is another item on the 'to-do list'. We get that entirely. Non-formal  youth programming, mentoring, and adventurous journeys are what we do. 

Project Imo is committed to ensuring that your partnership and our delivery of the Award for your youth adds nothing but value to your organization and the youth you love.

It starts with you. You want to deliver amazing, individualized programs to help your youth have every opportunity.

1. As the Award Center, we handle the Award logistics, and dedicate an Award Coordinator for you.
2. We work together to establish a cohort structure for each year at The Bronze Award level. You decide how much financial support you offer to the process.
3. You advertise this voluntary program to your community within the cohort parameters.
4. We maintain regular communication about the delivery of the Award programmatically. 
5. Your youth succeed.